WITHIN THE WALL....

I havent lost any land nor have i been displaced this far by a govt project or by a
private entity but then I can still understand what the word sacrifice means. I cannot be forced to make a sacrifice, can I, if that is the case then will it be termed as a sacrifice in the first place.

sacrifice is when I am ready to lose something for a future gain, but then when I end
up losing everything, my land, my house, my birthplace, my village....is there some
cause so great that I could sacrifice it all....and that too happily...when am not even sure of what benefits shall accrue, either to me or the nation...
as a fairly educated person and someone still with a heart that beats for the people
of this nation, I dont intend to take the moral highground in this regard, just that
there has been little or no precedence of 'amicably displaced people' and people who
have happily decided to 'sacrifice' their fertile double or triple productive land for some wads of cash...

am not here taking sides on this issue, because i feel there is no side other than
heeding to my conscience. there also exists no side because the role the govt was
supposed to play was abdicated by it to some corporation or the development mafia as

people refer to it these days. asking people to leave their homes, farmlands and their villages tantamounts to crime, it is criminal to do so and more so to expect people to leave without as much as a protest.

the academia is of the opinion that adequate policy measures, their strengthening and
better implementation would result in amicable displacement and no protests. the
arguement looks wrethched even before i can put in any more clearer words.


let us take an example, something that is now the fate of people in villages in india. say a mining project comes up, land needs to be acquired, by some sheer sinister statistic all these projects come up in areas that have fertile land and well entrenched means of production and survival for the local communities.
as per the trend and the fundamentals of the LAA, 1894 the state has the right to
acquire land at will under the clause of the eminent domain and give some kind of
monetary compensation in return. the problem however is there is no method to
monetise a productive land, neither are people informed or given a choice..its classical top down bureacratic decisions being shovelled down the throats of the people.

before i just make my battle a little bigger, let me finish the saga of deprivation. so the people are asked to move away from the area which on records has been sold to
the company concerned and people have no right to live on that land anymore, some
money is offered which is a case of peanuts for monkeys anyway. some people are
given employment in the factory that comes up, but not as permanent employees but
as temporary labourers, these people do the shovelling, mining work, working in deep
mines all day, up and down the shafts of a mine and come out when the sun has gone
down. in a year or two the people who have been 'employed' are no longer medically fit and end up dead with cancer or whooping cough on account of working in these very mines with no gear or protection that is offered.....

so isnt this the recipe for death.....mass murder....genocide....mix state apathy
with corporate megalomania for more profits, more cost cutting, more optimisation,
maximum control, no regulation, scant disregard for people.....what do you have....a
nation that is broken....a nation with broken knees can never stand up....


the academia still believes that better regulations will work, it will only help in
ensuring a more pleasant death....or does such a notion exist...'pleasant death'
ahem...sounds like CSR or the same as 'collateral damage'....wonderful PR jargns
that can sell anything. you can sell anyone's soul as well through it, we have excellent people to do that.

the academia and the elite still feel that regulations would save the day, ensure
better practises and there is nothing as wrong as the people who are protesting
against the state managed negligence say it is. they still feel proper procedures would help, the point is asking someone to leave his house/farm/livelihood even
respectfully..(honorable eviction)....what is the recourse the concerned person have
for his livelihood and his socio-economic status...will the state support him...(well the Indian govt is a "wel" "fare" state....but who pays the 'fare')

state managed negligence....now that is the paradigm that has been in place ever
since nehru laid the foundation for the so called 'modern temples' of progress. the
model of development that was followed had no element of socialism in it but had a
very strong stalinist element about it.

so instead of debating the very core assumptions of the model of development being
shovelled down the throats of the people of this nation, we are busy evolving ways
and means to make this system work in as painless a manner as possible but then it
doesnt work that way....or does it???!!!

people are still happy riding the juggernaut totally oblivious of the cries of the people being smashed to smitherens and rather why should they not be...the elites stay unaffected and protected within their high walls, the electricity comes to them from some power plant that may have displaced lakhs of people, water would be coming
through the pipelines through some dams that would have broken the back of
countless local economies, their furniture comes by shredding millions of hectares of
pristine forests (oops, forests have animals, birds, insects as well), so may be they
will have to end up as pets in those homes or a zoo would be made for them all, as
for the insects, they would be fed insecticides and are not welcome, this is also true for most not so good looking animals....i forgot about tribals and other local populations who incidentally happen to depend on nature for their survival...so may be these people will be rehabilitated in some tin sheds and brick homes and provide cheap labor and security guards for the people within the wall.....may be....naah that is the norm.....

so meanwhile we continue to stay within our walls...truly that's a wall ...much
stronger and stable than the berlin wall...its a wall that feeds on the carcass of
conscience, morality and the human spirit. soon however there would be none left to
feed on for these walls and will then the wall turn itself on what is left of these
people.....turn them into zombies may be or something like what was left of men
when the T virus attacked them and turned them into something that wouldnt die but
would feed on whatever that could move.....(RESIDENT EVIL EXTINCTION STYLE)